The Now Habit I am a procrastinator. I say that in the same sense that a reformed alcoholic still acknowledges his disease. I might gain some degree of control over it, however i have those tendencies that I must watch or they'll take over my entire life.
The best discipline I've learned may be the Now Habit.
First, let me explain what the Now Habit is not. It's not a complex system of rewards I setup for myself basically get certain tasks done. Those haven't worked for me personally. Due to the fact I am the one responsible for administering those rewards.
now habitBasically want those rewards badly enough, I've been known to just take the reward without having done the job beforehand. Bad, bad, bad.
What the Now Habit is, is a method of keeping my mind in our. I procrastinate when I fool myself into believing I can do the "dreaded thing" later. That's living in the future.
I also tend to get down on myself because of not doing the "dreaded thing" sooner. So what happens is that rather than congratulating myself when I finally get to work on it, I blast myself because I ought to be much farther along than I'm.
the now habitResiding in the present is the best way to get things done. To keep my thoughts around the now, I use affirmations. I repeat, "do it now," or "I will act now" to myself over and over again all day long. Sometimes I've even write these affirmations down ten or twenty times each day, especially when I had been trying to build this habit.
It comes with an old saying (which if any reader can send me the source, I'd love to give that person proper credit) that says:
Sow a concept, reap an action.
the now habit by neil fiore Sow an action, reap a habit.
Sow a habit, reap a destiny.
These affirmations are my method of creating a habit. A now habit which will force the competing procrastination habit from my entire life.
Build the now habit. Find the now affirmations that resonate with you and repeat them hundreds of times each day. Like several habits, in 21 days it will likely be entrenched in your consciousness. Reap your personal destiny.